If you feared that your skepticism of industry-funded studies may have been unfounded, worry no more. A recent analysis of studies examining the relationship between soda, diabetes and obesity has revealed that who paid for the study may have more to do with the outcome than actual science. The findings were published in late October 2016 by the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.Researchers from the University of California at San Francisco analyzed 60 different studies of soft drink consumption's relationship to diabetes and obesity – all of which had been conducted between the years 2001 and 2016. They specifically chose studies that featured rigorous methodologies.